James F. R. Kunkemueller ’61

Jim Kunkemueller died of progressive supranuclear palsy on June 14, 1999, at the Newton & Wellesley [Mass.] Alzheimer's Center after an eight-year struggle.

Born and raised in East Orange, N.J., and moving to Montclair in 1956, Kunks came to Princeton from Newark Academy. At Princeton, he was an electrical engineering major, and a member of Dial Lodge and the heavyweight crew. His senior year roommates were Dave McEwen and John Pasalis. Since graduation we've seen Kunks regularly at major reunions, and he maintained close friendships with many classmates, including his roomies Stan Panosian and John Bjorkholm.

After service to NATO with Hughes Aircraft in Germany, Kunks attended Harvard business school, graduating in 1965. Following a stint with the then-fledgling Boston Consulting Group and the Boston Co., he joined Analog Devices in 1976 as treas. In 1986 he founded Dover Financial Consulting, which he ran until the onset of his illness in 1990. A dedicated athlete all his adult life, he was a cyclist and a runner, completing the Boston Marathon four times.

While at Harvard, Kunks courted and married Pamela Schluter, whose devotion to him during his illness was, in a word, extraordinary. Pam survives him, as do his children, Laura '87 and Andrew; brother, Henry; and a grandson. We join them in mourning his passing.

The Class of 1961